Blog and updates
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12 May 2023
UK Interest Rates Climb to 4.5% - Highest since 2008
Unsurprisingly, UK monetary policy interest rates have ticked upwards again, reaching 4.5% after today's Bank of England announcement. However, the Bank is also of the view that inflation is going...
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11 May 2023
Live Revision on Government Intervention, Economic Efficiency and Welfare
Join me on Friday 12th May from 4.30pm for two live exam-focused revisions ahead of Paper 1 where we will explore the key topic of government failure followed by how best to use economic efficiency...
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10 May 2023
Growth and Economic Development in Rwanda | Country Profile for 2023
This new video provides some context on the economic, social and political crisis facing Rwanda - hopefully useful application for Economics students revising growth and development.
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10 May 2023
Ryanair and Economies of Scale
Might the Ryanair deal to buy up to 300 Boeing 737 Max-10s generate economies of scale? It is certainly a good applied example of monopsony power and internal growth of a business as the aviation...
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7 May 2023
Financial Economics - Revolut waits for their banking licence
To lend money to customers, businesses need to apply for and gain approval for a specific type of banking licence. This is an important example of a regulatory entry barrier. UK-based mobile...
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6 May 2023
Debunking myths about low emissions zones
This Guardian article looks at how congestion zones are misrepresented in the media and highlights four benefits of clean air zones that are often overlooked.
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6 May 2023
Economics Revision in 60 Seconds On Your Favourite Social Platforms
We're busy creating short (60 second) revision videos explaining key topics and concepts in A Level Economics! And Tik Tok has been added to our content platforms.
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4 May 2023
Globalisation - How Mexico is Becoming the New China
This Wendover Productions clip looks at how the US-China trade war started to change US trade patterns, and how the coronavirus and its effect upon global supply chains, and lately the Ukraine war...
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4 May 2023
Quick Revision Blasts on Market Structures
In these three quick revision blasts, we looked at sticky prices in the petrol retail oligopoly; contestability in parcel couriers and the controversial issue of price walking by insurance...
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4 May 2023
Country Profile - Growth and Development in Sri Lanka
Here is a new video providing some context on the economic, social and political crisis facing Sri Lanka - hopefully useful application for students revising growth and development.
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3 May 2023
Revision Session on Government Intervention
Almost 700 Year 13 Economists joined me for this highly interactive revision session on government intervention in markets on Monday. Once again, there were lots of stunning responses in the live...
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3 May 2023
De-Merit Goods - Australia to ban recreational vaping
Australia is looking to ban recreational vaping, believing vaping amongst the young to be a gateway drug, rather than a way of weaning people off cigarettes. As a result, vaping is going to be ban...
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2 May 2023
Economics Topics in 60 Seconds!
We're busy recording a series of 60-second YouTube shorts covering a range of key economics topics and concepts. We thought long and hard about what to call them - and came up with 60 Second...
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1 May 2023
Inflation has made us poorer but whose fault is it?
Larry Elliott writes in the Guardian about the current bout of inflation and, rightly in my view, turns the tables on the Bank of England. Instead of asking for workers to show restraint in their...
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1 May 2023
How can heavy industry decarbonise?
This clip looks at the attempts of heavy industry to decarbonise, not least the chemical sector. It highlights some familiar themes, not least the need for better information in the market, the...
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1 May 2023
New live A-Level Economics revision sessions
I am running some new live A-Level Economics revision sessions this week as preparations build for Paper 1 and Paper 2 this month. Join us live on YouTube here:
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28 Apr 2023
Sri Lanka - Update on their economic crisis
The Sri Lankan central bank has set out how the debt crisis has adversely affected the economy and the trajectory of the recovery, forecasting a 2% decrease in growth this year before 3.35 growth...
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28 Apr 2023
Growth and the Environment - The True Cost Of Mexico's Maya Train
This Insider Business clip looks at the trade-off between economic growth and Mexico's infrastructure and culture.
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